The Science Mouse

a science e-zine for children

Archive for March, 2009


   Mar 28

Homeschool Carnivals

I participated in some homeschool carnivals.  Check them out and I hope you enjoy them! Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival The Carnival of Homeschooling Hands On Homeschool Blog Carnival

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   Mar 10

The Space Shuttle in crayon

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   Mar 10

Make Your Own Science Journal

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   Mar 09

Planet Earth, our home in space

The Apollo 8 mission was the first manned voyage to orbit the moon.  Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell were the astronauts in this historic mission.  On Christmas Eve 1968, they got to see the Earth rising over the moon’s surface just like the sun.  William Anders took the picture you see to the [...]

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   Mar 09

Copernicus: Genius or Fool?

Nicolaus Copernicus is known as the Father of Modern Astronomy. His idea that the earth revolves around the sun was not very popular, but it was very important. He was called a “fool” by church leaders, but they did not know that God made the solar system to revolve around the sun. Copernicus was born [...]

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   Mar 09

Galileo’s Journal, a book review

Title: Galileo’s Journal, 1609-1610 Author: Jeanne K. Pettenati Illustrator: Paolo Rui Galileo’s Journal by Jeanne Pettenati is a fictional book written as if it were Galileo’s real journal.  The events really happened. During this time, Galileo made lots of discoveries.  He heard rumors about a spyglass that made far away things seem bigger. He made [...]

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   Mar 09

Uranus

Uranus is one of the gas giants and is very large, but it is one and three quarter billion miles from the sun.  It cannot be seen from Earth without a telescope.  Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, a German-born British astronomer who also discovered infrared radiation.  Uranus was the first planet discovered [...]

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   Mar 09

Mercury

Mercury was named for the Roman God, Mercury. He was the fast messenger of the gods. He even had wings on his heels! It is a good name for the planet Mercury because it moves around the sun faster than any other planet. It goes around the sun every 88 days. Even though Mercury goes [...]

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   Mar 09

Mars, the Red Planet

From Earth, Mars looks like a red dot in the sky, even without a telescope.  Mars was named after the Roman god of war, maybe because it is red like blood.  When astronomers looked at Mars through a telescope, they saw dark lines.  In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli made a map of these dark [...]

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   Mar 09

Robert Goddard’s Rocket

Robert Goddard dreamed of going to space. He said, “It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked toward the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of [...]

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